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00-W-36367 cf FLYING DISK PATENTED -- Neples, Il Giornale, 12 Jan 5h According to a Genoa newspaper {not further jdentified), the patent office of the Genoa Chamber of Commerce has issued a patent for a flying disk te Scipione Mattolin, 38, &@ Venetian naval fitter residing in Genoa. The iuven- tion is patented es No 165 of Patent Register 125. The disk would cost in ex- cess off500 million lire; it could attain 4 speed of 3,000 kilometers per hour. Mattolin has offered his invention to Italy, but it has been turned down; he 4ntends to emigrate and offer it elsewhere. ‘ The Fes daily newspaper le Courrier du Maroc, in its 12 January 1954 issue, stated that the disk will weigh 5 tons and will take off from a tower 18 meters high, It will consist of a disk-shaped plestic wing, an aluminum central sphere, and a cockpit containing two jet engines# The Stockholm daily newspaper Stock- holms-Tidningen, on 12 Januery 1954, reported that Mattolin is in contact with US authorities. ] LRARY SUBJECT & AREA CODES —